The Clinton Mirror.
P.O. Lyons, Iowa.
Clinton, Iowa, Saturday, Sept. 30, '99
SEEN Mead’s new delivery wagon?
For your crockery go to M. K. Madden’s.
GENTS’ UNDERWEAR at Meyer and Hayung’s
DID you find an old overcoat that you had left?
RIVER FALLING—About three feet above low water line.
SUPERVISORS in session on Sharon road case one day this week.
OYSTERS, celery, cranberries, sweet potatoes, at George Buechner’s.
LADIES wishing to have their coats remodeled take them to Mrs. M. Doran.
BANKER’S Mocha and Java coffee 25 cents for one lb. Can, at Meyer & Hayungs.
CLOTHING CLEANED, colored and pressed. Fourth Street, three doors south of Main.
THE Disbrow Co. are still spreading; just bought the lot between the factory and the railroad track.
A GOOD THING TO HAVE about this time—a good pair of shoes from Rodman & Co’s cash shoe store.
REV. E. E. Mathes, from Oklahoma, will preach in the Presbyterian Church Sunday, Oct. 1st. You invited.
TWO calls for fire Wednesday afternoon in Clinton. A barn, not much damaged; and house of F W. Shaw, loss $300.
FOR a cough or cold try a bottle of Schenk’s cough balsam—it gives prompt relief. Get Schenk to fill your prescriptions.
A BIG THING—The shoe that Rodman & Co. had in the parade. You can get smaller ones at Rodman & Co’s cash shoe store.
MRS. S. P. C. STUMBAUGH goes with her family to Laurel, Miss., where Mr. Stumbaugh has a good job with Eastman & Gardiner Co.
MR. W. J. COOK returned from Charles City, and this week work on the new Odd Fellows building has been progressing lively.
The Diamond Joe boats are all laid up.
The Acme Packet boats will run between Lyons ands Davenport as long as the river is open. Patronize home industry.
You don’t have to take the Spirit of the Times nor the Police Gazette to get the prize fights now—the Herald and Journal are dishing up the athletic news on end.
Look at the fine displays of fruits at Buechner’s and at the varieties under ice at McPherson’s. Makes potatoes and tomatoes taste so much better.
MR. M. R. DORAN, of Fulton, has sold out his marble shops to an Eastern wholesale firm, who will fulfill his contracts, and the undertaking business to his partner therein, Mr. Murphy.
GREENHOUSE plants and flowers moved in under glass, and fall and winter supplies coming on in time, at the Lyons greenhouses. Meanwhile orders filled for anything in that line.
THE UPPER Iowa Methodist Conference meets at Waterloo on the 4th of October, and we suppose that Dr. M. H. Smith of this city, and the other M. E. Ministers of city and county will be present.
THE Republican City Central Committee has been organized with Gilbert Temple as Chairman and W. H. Childs as Secretary. Rooms 303-304 Weston Block. Now for working and winning.
MR. E. M. HOWES already has several applications for rooms in the third story and in the basement of his new block, but has not yet decided how he will finish off the former, or what he will do about the latter.
CITY COUNCIL—Meeting 26th. Official reports only said: “Councilman Anderson offered a resolution confirming the special assessment levied August 30, 1899, and moved its adoption. Carried 6 years..” Adjourned to Friday night.
IF PAPERS are correct when they describe how a man “suicided,” and how many relatives he is “survived” by, why don’t they still further improve upon the language when an accidental death occurs by relating how the victim “accidented.”
SEVERAL sorts of weather since our last—the first of the week cool and cooler until on Tuesday, at 6 A.M. an average thermometer marked 30 degrees, and there were good frosts two mornings. Tuesday night, 64 degrees; Wednesday cool again; Thursday cool with strong west wind; and Friday morning, 35 degrees, and cloudy.
THE regular quarterly meeting of the Executive Committee Ladies’ Auxiliary, L. Y. M. A. will be held at the Library Rooms on Monday, October 2dm, at 2:30 P.M.
Button Factory.
Mr. D. F. Womochel arrived from Muscatine “to stay,” Wednesday, bringing with him Messrs. A. J. Rankin and W. J. Herick as experts in the work of button making. Mr. A. B. Rehmel, a millwright, followed to set up the machinery, and that work has been under way since, at the old Hudson building. Mr. C. M. Howell of the East is proprieter, and Mr. Womochel superintendent. The latter has had much experience in the business at Muscatine, and will be seconded by Messrs. Rankin and Herick in the work—and the rest of the hands will be drawn from the young folks of this city or vicinity
The establishment of this enterprise will be an excellent thing for the town; and we congratulate those who will obtain work there this winter and afterwards.
Economic Theatre.
This week’s plays at the Economic were a great improvement on previous performances-especially the Shakespearian renditions. The Two Married Men led off well; and William Owen in Richolieu and the Merchant of Venice, with good support, was fully up to his reputation, and fine indeed.
Oct. 4th and 5th, the Pay Train and the Wheel of Fortune will be presented in the best manner, and at low prices.
Society Circus.
The great amateur event, under the auspices of the Lyons Odd Fellows, fully met with reasonable expectations. The procession was lengthy—over a hundred teams, horsemen, etc. The decorations and costumes were comical in some instances, and in others were sensibly calculated for business advertising. Odd Fellows and ladies in carriages led off, with music by the Clinton band and the martial band. Among the business houses represented were G. W. Ashton, M. I. Mead, Geo. Buechner, Weeks & Lollich, C. Magnussen, J. H. Schneider, Overkamp Bros., Boy Petersen, E. M. Henie, W. B. Ebensberger, Struve’s Model; Roller Mills, J. A. Nattinger, M. H. Westbrook, Thos. Foley, C. W. Wulf, Rodman & Co., W. C. Hobein, H. F. Sanger, Meyer & Hhayungs, Mrs. Munko, Thos, McGrath, H. A. Witthoft, Otto Rockrohr, Baldwin Bros., Jerry Cahill, and others.
The performance afternoon and evening, in Sanger’s tent drew good crowds, if it was cold. The “circus” was in part good acting by professionals, and part good burlesquing by amateurs—for instance, the tight-rope was on the ground, and the wakist carried a parachute to save himself from hurt if he fell off.
We presume the Lodge made some money to apply on its new buildings.
EVENING CLASSES will be opened at the Y. M. C. A. rooms in Clinton next week. Monday, bookkeeping, Charles Harris; shorthand, A. B. Rathbun—tuition 50 cents. Tuesday, German, Fred Koch. $1; first aid lecture, Dr. H. R. Sugg. 25 cents. Wednesday, English grammar, Chas. Harris; arithmetic, G. B. Durbin—free; penmanship, W. M. Halliman, 50 cents. Friday, mechanical drawing, W. C. Klingelhofer, $1. Tuesday evenings, also, practical talks on air brakes by L. S. Putnam and Myron Adams. First ais lectures commences in January.
AT Nelson, Ill., an old German was found in a bad condition, who said he had been robbed and locked in a box car at Clinton. He lost $15, but the thugs did not get other money in two pairs of trousers worn under his overalls. That was a good scheme, but we once knew a man who came home after a short absence with seven shirts on. Whenever he wanted a clean shirt he put it on over the other, and kept warm.
The disinterested patriot Agunaldo has only starved about 30 per cent of his Spanish prisoners to death in the past 60 days, although under all the rules of war, to say nothing of the dictates of common humanity, they were entitled to their freedom the day the Paris treaty was signed. Prof. Atkinson should incorporate these statistics in his next bulletin.—Minn. Trib.